sorry to be lazy and just lift from my review but I also on't want to come off like I'd have listened to this album otherwise or remember off hand which songs I'm referring to in the header...


“What It Feels Like” and “Faster” are an odd opening sequence if for no other reason than they both very openly ape Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy; the former is clearly an amateur-professional’s take on “All of the Lights”, while “Faster” wants so badly to be “Hell of a Life” by borrowing that track’s echoplexed chorus. Kid Ink also borrows Yeezy’s Yeezus shrieks and his flow, and if it weren’t for a pretty dope, haunting use of something that sounds a lot like Amnesiac-era Radiohead for the beat’s backbone (courtesy of rising genius DJ Dahi), it’d be fairly easy to convince someone it was a reference track that Kanye used to create his pornographic fantasy.

Truthfully, that’s both Full Speed‘s biggest flaw and greatest asset throughout the album. “Dolo” probably would have been a reasonably recognizable single except its choral melody and overall composition borrows too ferociously from “Touchin’, Lovin’” by Trey Songz.


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